Building a spiritual vocabulary out of our experience of life in the city is an activity that requires both an immersion into urban life and a lively imagination. 

In our lives we are likely to undergo multiple experiences of initiation. These processes are part of our urban as well as our spiritual formation.

When we are initiated into the life of a city we begin a life-long process of urban formation.

Navigation involves creating personal patterns of movement and association in and through the city.

Discovery is the way we learn to “read the city.”

Transformation is the way we draw upon our spiritual traditions to turn our cities into places of creativity, equity, and authentic community.